TagMimesis

Raquel Romberg provides an in depth review of magic and mimesis from an anthropological perspective. Drawing on her own exhaustive research into Afro-Latin rituals and Taussig’s “first and second contact”, Romberg turns her post into a reflexive project: a fourth contact that acts as an embodied retelling with its own ethnographic and spiritual ‘power’.

Rane Willerslev discusses the world and worldview of Yukaghir hunters in this excerpt from a longer paper of the same title. Notions of what animals are and what people are–and can do in relation to other animals–differ significantly in this tradition compared to Western, Euro-American metaphysics.